03188nam 22005775 450 991041608930332120220228193707.03-030-47839-410.1007/978-3-030-47839-1(CKB)4100000011384322(MiAaPQ)EBC6302774(DE-He213)978-3-030-47839-1(EXLCZ)99410000001138432220200808d2020 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England Bearing Witness /by Peter Jones, Steven King1st ed. 2020.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2020.1 online resource (143 pages)Palgrave pivot3-030-47838-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. From Resistance to Reform: Changing Attitudes to the New Poor Law Workhouse in England and Wales -- 2. Not That Joseph Rowntree: An Amateur Workhouse Inspector -- 3. Pauper Letter Writers, Public Opinion, and the Workhouse Experience -- 4. Bearing Witness.This book represents the first attempt to identify and describe a workhouse reform ‘movement’ in mid- to late-nineteenth-century England, beyond the obvious candidates of the Workhouse Visiting Society and the voices of popular critics such as Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale. It is a subject on which the existing workhouse literature is largely silent, and this book therefore fills a considerable gap in our understanding of contemporary attitudes towards institutional welfare. Although many scholars have touched on the more obvious strands of workhouse criticism noted above, few have gone beyond these to explore the possibility that a concerted ‘movement’ existed that sought to place pressure on those with responsibility for workhouse administration, and to influence the trajectory of workhouse policy.Palgrave pivot.Social historyCivilizationHistoryHistory of Britain and Irelandhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717020Social Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/724000Cultural Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/723000Great BritainHistorySocial history.CivilizationHistory.History of Britain and Ireland.Social History.Cultural History.362.5830942900Jones Peterauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut369564King Stevenauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910416089303321Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England2134028UNINA